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Help Us Imagine a New America ... President and CEO Anne-Marie Slaughter’s new book, Unfinished Business: Women, Men, Work, Family
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Help us imagine a New America where the family is at the center of social policy-making, where we value care as much as we value competition, and where the future of work promotes flexibility and equality.
New America's policy experts, fellows and award-winning writers and thinkers are imagining this renewed America every day.
President and CEO Anne-Marie Slaughter’s new book, Unfinished Business: Women, Men, Work, Family is the latest publication in a long list of thoughtful work coming from New America’s talented team. In the book, Anne-Marie encourages us to rethink the constructs of care and competition, the future workplace needs and practices, and how we need to develop an infrastructure of care in America.
Anne-Marie Slaughter's Unfinished Business [see below]
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In our recent publication Strengthening Ties: the case for building a social policy centered on families, we discuss how America’s “family” policies are “often based on long-defunct assumptions about the actual structure of modern families,” and “policy silos prevent the strategic coordination of support systems and social programs.”
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BOOK | SEPTEMBER 28, 2015
Anne-Marie Slaughter
Three years after her conversation-starting article in The Atlantic, 'Why Women Still Can't Have It All,' New America President and CEO Anne-Marie Slaughter released her book Unfinished Business: Women, Men, Work, Family. Slaughter presents her blueprint for the future of gender equity and workplace policies that can promote more balanced lives for men and women.
Public Book Tour Schedule
Seattle
October 5th at Town Hall Seattle
San Francisco
October 6th at Book Passage
October 7th at Commonwealth Club
Los Angeles
October 8th at Los Angeles World Affairs Council
Chicago
October 12th at the Union League Club
October 12th at Family Action Network
October 13th at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs
Austin
October 15th at the Texas Conference for Women
Little Rock
October 16th at the Clinton School of Public Service
Philadelphia
October 19th at the National Constitution Center
New York
October 21st at New York Big Ideas Night with Anne-Marie Slaughter
Boston
November 3rd at Harvard Book Store
Princeton
November 30th at Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs
About the Book
When Anne-Marie Slaughter accepted her dream job as the first female director of policy planning at the U.S. State Department in 2009, she was confident she could juggle the demands of her position in Washington, D.C., with the responsibilities of her family life in suburban New Jersey. Her husband and two young sons encouraged her to pursue the job; she had a tremendously supportive boss, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton; and she had been moving up on a high-profile career track since law school. But then life intervened. Parenting needs caused her to make a decision to leave the State Department and return to an academic career that gave her more time for her family.
The reactions to her choice to leave Washington because of her kids led her to question the feminist narrative she grew up with. Her subsequent article for The Atlantic, “Why Women Still Can’t Have It All,” created a firestorm, sparked intense national debate, and became one of the most-read pieces in the magazine’s history.
Since that time, Anne-Marie Slaughter has pushed forward, breaking free of her long-standing assumptions about work, life, and family. Though many solutions have been proposed for how women can continue to break the glass ceiling or rise above the “motherhood penalty,” women at the top and the bottom of the income scale are further and further apart.
Now, in her refreshing and forthright voice, Anne-Marie Slaughter returns with her vision for what true equality between men and women really means, and how we can get there. She uncovers the missing piece of the puzzle, presenting a new focus that can reunite the women’s movement and provide a common banner under which both men and women can advance and thrive.
With moving personal stories, individual action plans, and a broad outline for change, Anne-Marie Slaughter reveals a future in which all of us can finally finish the business of equality for women and men, work and family.